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Cancer is characterised by unwanted, abnormal and lawless growth of cells in the body. A new growth or swelling in the body is called tumour. Usually tumour is of two types, benign and malignant. A malignant tumour ultimately turns into cancer. Cancer cells suck the vital nutrients from the body thereby causing death of the patient.
Classification: Cancer cells can start in any part of the body and each particular part of the body produces a specific and different type of cancer. Carcinoma is cancer of the skin, glands, or membranes; sarcoma is cancer of the bone, muscle, or connective tissue; melanoma is cancer of the pigment cells of the skin; lymphoma is cancer of the lymphatic nodes, and leukaemia is cancer of the blood. Cancer is neither contagious nor communicable. It is also not a hereditary disease. Mostly adults get cancer in their middle and late life. Nowadays children and young people under 21 are also vulnerable.
Causes of Cancer
Cancer is usually caused by constant consumption of devitalised or adulterated foods. Some doctors have opined that this is a vitamin deficiency disease. Others have expressed the view that it is a disease of malnutrition. Syphilitic lesions of the tongue may lead to cancer of the tongue. Prolonged exposure to sun's rays causes skin cancer. Alcohol taken in excess causes cancer of the larynx and liver. Cigarette smoking appears to be a factor for lung cancer. Chewing betel leaves with tobacco mixture (gundi) causes cancer of the mouth and liver. Excessive or frequent childbirth causes cancer of the uterus. Chewing dried tobacco leaves with (chuna) causes cancer of the mouth and stomach.
Warning signals: The American Cancer Asso?ciation has prescribed six warning signals for cancer
1. A sore that does not heal, particularly about mouth, tongue or lips.
2. A painless lump or thickening in the breast or elsewhere.
3. Bloody discharge from any body opening.
4. Persistent indigestion or difficulty in swallowing.
5. Persistent hoarseness or cough.
6. Any change in the colour or size of a mole or wart.
If these danger singles are heeded and a physician consulted chance of premature death can be greatly minimised.
Treatment of Cancer
Cancer is treated by three basic and approved methods - surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy. Surgery is the oldest method of treating cancer. Surgical removal of the malignant tumour may help to restore normal function of the body, relieve pain and also retard the growth of cancer.
Radiation therapy: For some types of localised cancer, such as those originating in the skin, uterine cervix or larynx, X-ray administered externally can result in complete eradication of the disease without other forms of treatment. Radiation may also be applied to tumours by the internal administration of radio-active materials. Sometimes a radio-active material such as radium is implanted directly in a tumour.
Chemotherapy: It is the attempt to treat cancer with chemicals that might selectively destroy cancer cells or inhibit their growth without seriously harming normal cells. Scientists have developed new drugs like busulfan, chlorambucil, cyclophosphamide and antimetabolites which can be readily used without any side effects.
Hormone treatment: It is another form of chemotherapy. The administration of male or female hormones can produce temporary but drastic improvements in carcinomas of breast and prostate glands.
Fruit juice therapy: An imbalance in the body chemistry and cell metabolism causes degenerative diseases like cancer, arthritis and heart-attack, which can be easily set right by extensive detoxification of the whole body by consuming raw fruit juices in plenty. No other food can give such an effective detoxification of the whole body. It is now a settled fact that dietary factors promote cancer. Constant consumption of adulterated, cooked and devitaminised foods causes all sorts of degenerative diseases like cancer, arthritis, and heart-attack. What we have to do is to change our eating habits. We have to consume fresh fruit and vegetable juices in plenty daily in order to keep our body free from any such degenerative disease.
Dr. Cyril Scott in his book 'Victory over Cancer' has said, 'According to reliable statistics more than 800 people die everyday from cancer in the United States. One out of every five
American will eventually have cancer. This killer claims the life of one American every two or one third minutes. Since the year 1900, cancer has risen from 8th position as the cause of death to second place. Heart disease is first and alcoholism is the third
From this, you will find that cancer has now become a terror or horrer to all of us. No one knows when his turn will come. With regard to its appearance, one famous physician named Gallen gave an wonderul description of it more than 1700 years ago. He said, 'Just as a crab's feet extends from every part of its body so in this disease, the veins are distended, forming a similar figure.' He named the crab-like disease cancer.
C.E. Perkins in his book 'What Price Civilisation' has said, 'There is nothing dramatic or romantic about cancer. It is the result of man's self-indulgence and Lack of wisdom. There is considerable drama, however, in the toll cancer is taking of civilised men. Stark gruesome drama, reeking with pathos, sorrow, suffer?ing and despair. What are we going to do about it?' He did not give any clue or hints for its remedy. He simply described the horrible nature of cancer.
Dr. Harry Hoxsey, a herbalist of the United States, first tried to cure cancer patients with herbal medicines and fruit juice. He got the prescription from his late father who was successful in curing cancer of the animals with herbal medicines. Dr. Harry Hoxsey was arrested by the U.S. Govt. and convicted. But his conviction was later quashed as he proved before the judges that cancer of the skin, tongue, face, legs could be cured with herbal medicines and fruit therapy. Judges were satisfied with his treatment and they released him with honour. His main treatment consisted of applying one piece of crushed garlic with a sticking plaster on the affected part and renewing the same after every four hours. He found that cancerous growths of the skin disap?peared within a very short time. This is really a remarkable achievement. One most interesting thing was that he kept his patients only on fruit and vegetable juices without any cereals during treatment. This showed, that fruit and vegetable juices has miraculous healing powers. He recorded all his observations in his most famous book 'You don't have to die'.
Dr. Max Gerson, a cancer specialist of the U.S., made extensive researches on cancer patients. He observed that cancer was nothing but a degenerative disease. In cancer not only the symptoms but the whole body must be treated. He was convinced that cancer did not require any specific treatment. The main point is that the whole body must be detoxified with raw fruit and vegetable juices. The patients must be kept wholly on raw fruit juice therapy, and they should not be given any cereals to eat. His basic medicines were potassium iodide and fruit and vegetable juices. He has said, 'There is no one drug which can cure cancer and its ultimate conquest will never be made by finding some elusive virus. I gradually came to the conclusion that in a body with normal metabolism, cancer could not develop. The normalisation of the damaged metabolism is therefore essential aim of my therapy'. He also specifically pointed out that normalisation of damaged metabo?lism could be very effectively done by consuming fruit and vegetable juices.
Dr. E. C. Cowdry in. his book 'Trends in Cancer Research' has said, 'One of the chief achievements since 1938 in cancer research is proof that dietary factors influence cancer promotion.' It is now a settled fact that cancer is caused by constant consumption of cooked, dead devitalised and adulterated foods. It can be easily rectified by only consuming fresh fruit and vegetable juices and no cereals. This is the only specific treatment for cancer.
Dr. J. P. Davidson, a cancer specialist of the U.S., has said, 'Cancer is a disease of malnutrition. It is nothing but a vitamin deficiency disease. What is required is to detoxify the whole body by consuming plenty of fruit and vegetable juices. This is the only key to good health and to save your body from the attack of degenerative diseases'.
Prof. Bauer of the University of Heidelburg has said, 'We are justified in concluding that nutritive food whatever its nature can protect us from cancer'.
Therefore the basis of all sound treatment goes back to the soil, the producer of our food. What we eat, drink and breathe are adulterated, devitaminised, poisoned by pesticides and food grown in a depleted soil. We are finding it increasingly difficult to obtain fresh air in town and abundant normal living foods in urban shops. What we eat and drink nowadays are largely poison, forced by unnatural methods to grow on depleted soil and further poisoned by insect sprays, traces of which can never be completely removed from the fruits and vegetables, which are often further vitiated by irrational cooking methods. Cooking destroys most of the normal or natural vitamins so that what we eat today is nothing but roughage or poisons. We cannot cure sick people with adu1terated or dead foods. |
| Author: Alien |
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Author Bio:
Alien is a freelance writer with more than 25 years experience as a health care professional. He is a contributing editor to Home remedies , a site dedicated to the home remedies for common ailments . Check out this site for more information on PMS
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